Chapter updated! So, this chapter was going to be … way longer, but I decided to split it into two. I hope you enjoy.

Chapter 21

Grim

I stretched from my seated position. I was slightly frustrated that I didn't remember such an important detail for our quest. I wasn't going to let Link go on his own in that temple, sure he had done it before, but this time was different.

"It's probably better if Electra stayed out of the Lakebed Temple anyway." Link stated. "It's a confusing piece of work and I know what to expect down there."

"What?!" I exclaimed in a higher pitch than what I wanted my voice to go. "But what if He is down there?"

"Then I will shove a sword through his chest and maybe he will disappear for a while."

"That seems rather ruthless." Delilah remarked, "But effective none the less."

"Since when could Electra's voice go so high? I think if she did that any longer she would break a window." Jason questioned.

"Really," I glared in annoyance and then turned back to Link. "Are you seriously thinking about going into that thing by yourself."

"Yes, there are several items required to go into that temple and do it safely." Link answered. "Unless you have a way to breathe underwater and a pair of iron boots, there is no way that you can even get into the temple. Then you need the claw shot to maneuver throughout the temple."

I was about to object, but I couldn't think of anything that I could come back with. He was absolutely right about the temple and I didn't have a diving suit for the pressure, I didn't have a claw shot to navigate, though he could have technically pulled me up, and I certainly didn't have any boots that could keep me at the bottom of the water filled temple if there was a boss in that one room where it was seriously required.

I sighed, "Well I'm not going to be sitting here until you come back and I'm not going to go with them just in case something happens. You do float, right?"

"What's wrong with us? Do we smell?" Jason asked.

"Yea you do now that you mentioned it. You smell a lot like wet dog."

"Bloody Hell, I'm not leaving without cleaning up."

"Same," Shad answered standing up. "I will see you later, Renado?"

"Wimps," Delilah called as Renado led the two men out of the room. "But seriously though, swamp water, not my thing. Wait!"

I watched Delilah and the rest of the soldiers leave after Renado. I sighed again as I turned to Shad's work spread out on the table. "You do float though right?"

"Yes I float, but I doubt I will need assistance swimming." Link replied sounding annoyed.

"Sorry, just making sure that there is at least something I can do." I said tossing a book to the other side of the table. "Maybe even use the holophone like a live show or something."

"Yeah sure that way you don't have to be down there to help me." Link said and then perked up at an idea. "There is something that you could do when I'm down there that doesn't require your full attention."

I raised an eyebrow. "Like what?"

"Fish for something to eat tonight."

"You want me to fish, for food?" I asked suspiciously. "Don't you need a license for that?"

"No, why would ask that?" Link questioned and I didn't say anything. "Oh, well here you don't, as long as you don't catch anything illegal."

"Like those bone fish in the Lakebed Temple."

"Yes like the skullfish and the bombfish, they wouldn't be good for food anyway."

I smirked. "Can't imagine why."

Link pulled out a book and opened it on the table. There were pictures of fish on it and biggest and smallest size recorded next to the picture. "This is a fish journal; it has every fish in the country in it and the fish that you should be catching."

"Meaning the illegal ones that you caught are not recorded."

"Um, no, no they aren't recorded."

"You naughty boy; you were catching illegal fish weren't you."

"I can think of worse rules to break." Link responded rolling his eyes.

"Same, which makes me wonder why in my world there isn't a license for having a kid, but a license to catch a fish?"

Link smiled, "So is that the deal, you can be an extra set of eyes while not getting into trouble catching fish while I see if I can find the next Medallion."

"If that's all that can be done about it, then yes I suppose." I replied in agreement. At least I wasn't left in the dark. That was the one thing I hated was being left in the dark and not knowing when someone will come back and alive. Dad came to mind and I shivered. I didn't deal with that sort of anxiety well and here weren't any monsters nearby to take it out on. The past came down on me and I stood up from the table.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to go for a walk before we left since I figured we were all going to head to Lake Hylia anyway as that is in the same direction of the Zora's Domain." I answered barely turning to him.

Link nodded and I walked outside. I could hear the guys above in the hot spring and was very glad that it was a magical hot spring. I walked over to Hero and he looked up at me. I petted him on the nose for a few strokes as he head-butted me in the forehead lightly. I shook my head and left him to grazing. How did a horse eat so much? I continued my walk which led me to the graveyard. Crows, or what I assumed were crows, crowed making the graveyard a creepy place. I was glad it was broad daylight but at the same time, I didn't even care if it was the dead of night with a new moon. There wasn't anyone around. I walked over to the tree in the graveyard and found the two stones on top of the gravestone. Grass was already growing on top of the dirt as if there was something making the single spot special as it was the only spot in that part of the graveyard that had grass. I stopped in front of the stone and looked at the engraving on the stone. My chest seized as my emotions boiled over. The thoughts of losing Dad like I had with Happy and Volvagia were unbearable. I only knew Volvagia from the manga which itself was hard to read, but having Happy ripped from me was the worst thing I had felt and the ever growing threat that my father could be next was even worse. Tears were plastered on my face when I went to move a piece of hair that got in the way that I hadn't noticed that the tears had fallen. Was I crying as soon as I left that inn, or was before I left? My fist clenched around the hilt of my sword as Dean appeared in my head from the time in the cavern while was being attacked by Happy.

"What about keeping me alive, wouldn't it be easy just to get rid of me now?" I questioned in anger.

"It would be, except…"

I waited for him to finish, but when he didn't it dawned upon me. I sighed. "Oh for the love of God, goddesses, whatever… you are going to have to talk to my father first and I think throwing two worlds together to rule them would be a very negative thing on his list."

"How about I don't and you just come with me. You're a big girl aren't you?"

"I'm not interested in a relationship." I stated harshly.

A playful grin appeared on his face and he disappeared again. My guns were knocked out of my hands and landed near the edge of the platform. I went to grab my sword when Dean's arm wrapped around my waist pressing the handle to my side. The other arm wrapped just above my chest holding my arms to their sides. I felt his breath go through my hair and his heart, that sounded and felt so much like a human's, pound against my back.

"I love woman who play hard to get, it's more fun to seduce them." He whispered in my ear.

"That's not a line I would call as a romantic line. It's a turn off for anyone who wants a relationship."

"It is a bit, but for you, I would turn all the women away except for you."

I was about to make a remark when something large hit the floor behind us in the other room. Then, the cavern stopped shaking and became still. I felt Dean move his head away from my ear.

"Seems like it didn't work, next time we meet, give me at least something other than a struggle." Dean sighed and he disappeared leaving only an echo, "Miss Ends."

I clenched my fist around the hilt of my blade as anger over took my grief. Dean was going to regret ever hurting those two innocent dragons. My mind flashed to who he was working with in his plan from yesterday, Leviathan and Dark Link. I growled in frustration. I let go of my blade and grabbed the nearest stone off the ground and threw it as hard and as far as possible towards Kakariko Village. It flew over the canyon wall and towards Renado's house. But I didn't care; it felt nice to throw something. I turned back to the gravestone and calmed down a little. The leviathan was going to be stopped from raising Demise from the grave. Dark Link was going to go down even if it required me to find some way using satanic worship to make his existence disappear forever. I shook my head at the thought. How did my ancestor manage to befriend the same poor soul that Hylia fell in love with, Demise cursed to be reborn over and over again, still manage to receive the Triforce of Courage, and have a darkness of every generation of the soul be reborn into a shadow with an expansion of the Triforce? Such coincidences unnerved me greatly. How was Link going to beat something like that, especially when the shadow now had her world's to look at to develop his knowledge from future and across timelines from versions of himself. How were we still alive even though they knew that we were after them? My hand pulsed slightly and I grabbed in to make it stop. The Lakebed Temple was not going to be fun and my sign was telling me something horrible was going to happen. It pulsed again only more painfully making me gasp in surprise. I looked at it but it didn't show anything visible as it pulsed again.

I looked around trying to find what was making my piece act like it did in the Fire Temple, but there wasn't anything around. I looked back at the grave stone and took a step back in shock.

Happy was standing there in a ghostly figure and looked up at me. "Electra?"

I stepped forward and knelt down in front of him as I felt tears start to fall. "Yes Happy, I'm here." He tried to rub my left hand and went right through making me choke on my tears. "Happy…"

"Electra b-be… happy." Happy said as he struggled to say the word 'be'. He moved his head to my right hand and it connected making me feel his snake like skin. It was the happiest thing for me at the moment feeling him like he was actually there. But then, he stepped back and waved his tail leaving me alone. "Link…w…be fine." The last two words with something missing in the middle echoed the graveyard. I tried to grasp where the dragon was a second before, but he was gone leaving the air cold around my hand.

"Happy..." I whispered as I closed my hand pretending to feel his head against my hand. "All of them need to disappear so they won't hurt anyone else like this again."

I wiped my face and tried to be presentable before I went back out to the rest of our team. Though, Happy's appearance didn't help me sort through the mess in my head. I took a deep breath and decided to walk around the graveyard before I went back. I only got a few steps past the tree when my hand pulsed again. I turned back to Happy's and Volvagia's grave thinking it was Happy again, but only came face to face with Leviathan in her human form. I jumped back in surprise placing a hand on my sword and the other on my gun. I wasn't sure which one was the best for that moment, neither were the best. The idea of having lots of C-4 attached to the immortal creature sounded much better.

"Someone's jumpy." She said in an innocent tone. "How's it going sister, having a bad day?"

"We aren't sisters I don't even think we could be related." I replied angrily.

"We are related, by several millennia, but we are related."

"What are you doing here? I thought you were going to be at Demise's grave."

"I was there, but I got bored and decided to ask you kindly if you could stop your quest to finding the medallions. It's becoming a rather a nuisance when my friend can't get whole as fast as he would like."

"Yes well, your friend happened to kill my friend yesterday so to say I give a shit is rather an understatement."

"Oh right that… that was rather unfortunate that that happened." The leviathan crept closer to me.

"Unfortunate, you killed two dragons, one happened to be a baby!" I shouted taking a step back away from the golden eyed woman.

"Well now you know how it feels to have something ripped away from you that you loved." Leviathan growled angrily.

"What are you doing here?" I asked again, I didn't like how I was being backed into a corner, though there wasn't water nearby, so it was an upside.

"I hear that you are going following the temples from a little over a hundred years ago." She answered. "So I'm telling you that if you want to live long enough, you don't go down there."

"We go wherever it takes us to stop you and your friends from achieving what you started all those years ago."

She sighed. "I asked, oh well."

I narrowed my eyes in confusion when my hand pulsed again, only it was as painful as the time on the boat. I let go of my sword and grabbed my hand with the other. The graveyard darkened quickly and the crows went silent. A brown-black gloved hand came from behind me and grabbed my mouth and nose so I couldn't breathe. I grabbed the hand off my face ignoring the pulsing that ran straight up my arm as soon as I made contact and twisted it backwards. I looked up at who was attacking me and found Dark Link looking like he was gaining pigment. His skin was more of an ash grey color and his tunic and hat were pitch black instead of oil color while his boots matched his gloves. His under shirt and his pants were the same color of ash grey as his face and fingers. His hair was a dark black-grey with the same red eyes that glared back at me. His right glove had the Triforce glowing on his hand.

My vision pulsed and I let go just as he seemed to cringe in pain. The pain instantly subsided and I drew both my guns pointing them in different directions; one in the direction of Leviathan and the other in Dark Link's. Dark Link didn't back down as he took his sword out and it clashed with my guns. He pushed trying to disarm them from my hands, but they weren't going anywhere. I smirked remembering Link never fought against guns with a sword. I twisted my gun causing the sword to let up on the other gun and I managed to shoot him in the leg. The shot echoed the canyon and Dark Link's strength lessened significantly. I pushed the dark version of the Master Sword back and jumped away from him a few feet backwards. Blood appeared from the wound that he was holding with one hand while the other still held the Master Sword. My guns went back to pointing in the two directions with the leviathan looking at me in amusement, like a cat playing with a half dead mouse. After a few seconds Dark Link stood up and all that was left was the blood stain. Not even the hole in his pants remained.

"Really?"

Only a grin appeared on his face as he disappeared. The graveyard grew even darker like twilight was ending. I looked around keeping an eye on Leviathan who hadn't moved, though I couldn't see her face anymore. I walked forward towards the exit of the graveyard. I needed back up, it was one thing to go against each of them individually, but when they both were in the same place, a graveyard of all places and one standing by just in case it got out of hand, I was a little over my league. What was she doing, just standing there letting whatever Dark Link was doing. It disturbed me not knowing. My sword was pulled out of its sheath. I turned towards the direction I heard it dropped when I noticed it was over by the tree. I turned to the exit again when Dark Link's arm slipped under my chin and his fingers held my head still causing my vision to black out for a second from the sudden pain going through my skull which caused the guns to slip from my hands. I grabbed his arm as he tightened around my neck, but as soon as my right hand touched him, my body threatened to give out. Though, on the upside, his arm loosened each time I attempted. I clawed at him with my left hand though it didn't seem to work very well.

"Just give in; this would be so much easier for the both of us." Dark Link whispered in my ear causing me to stop struggling slightly. His voice was incredible sounding and my heart skipped a beat. He whispered a laugh in amusement. "You're heart just skipped a beat, was it something I said or something else."

I shook my head as much as I could though it wasn't much of a shake. I couldn't answer as his hold was tighter than before.

"Well that's disappointing." Dark Link continued to whisper and sounded genuinely disappointed. He loosened his grip to just holding me in place. I felt him twist a piece of my hair around his finger. "Remember when we used to be friends?"

I didn't get to tell him that I had no idea what he was talking about when the sounds of armor and footsteps entered the canyon and Dark Link's gripped tightened again.

Link appeared out of the darkness and shouted with his sword in hand. "Get away from her!"

I tried to warn him, Delilah, Jason and the five Hyrulian soldiers about Leviathan, but Dark Link squeezed causing only a gagging noise and me coughing for air. I grabbed his arm with both hands instinctually, but all it did was made me drop as far as I could go while Dark Link held me up. Everything hurt from whatever the Triforce of Justice was doing. It seemed to hurt Dark Link every time I touched him with my hand, but he didn't seem to notice as his hand with his Triforce symbol had been touching me since putting me in the headlock. All his seemed to do was affecting me the same way mine affected him except without the recoil. Or he had a high pain tolerance and just forgot it was hurting him. Leviathan walked over to us causing Link and co to stop in his tracks.

"Leviathan…" Link growled in disgust. "Let her go, the both of you."

"We have places to go… but I could make a deal for her life." Leviathan answered as she played with her hair.

"What do you want?"

"Both Medallions you have collected and for you to stop getting in our way would be a nice start."

"I was dumped into a flatted poisonous lake for one of those! I don't in bloody hell think that we will just hand them over!" Jason shouted.

"Not to mention, you guys killed a baby dragon for the other one." Delilah added.

"That was a bit of miscommunication on that last one." Leviathan told them.

"Just a bit huh? Murders… Happy sounds like he was the happiest dragon alive and I didn't even know him."

"Deal or no deal?" Leviathan said turning to Link ignoring Delilah.

I watched his facial features shift as he contemplated the options. I already figured what he was going to do and I was right when he started to go for his pouch. I braced myself as I did the only thing I could do. I grabbed Dark Link's hand with my right one and I didn't let go. He shouted in my ear in a different language and I felt awful about doing it for some reason. I didn't like him and he was by no means the friendliest person I have ever met, first meeting with him without interruption he tried to smother me, cut me down with a sword and then had an arm around my neck. Though, I did shoot him in the leg. But something made me almost take my hand off. His arm dropped off away from my neck and the sudden use of standing on my own was rather difficult as the pain was ripping through my body. He tugged his arm away turning me to face him, but I didn't let go. A few milliseconds later my hand couldn't hold his anymore and I let go. I stumbled backwards and felt Link grab my shoulders and passed me off to one of the Hyrulian soldiers. Leviathan looked almost confused as she looked between Dark Link and me. Without a word, the two teleported away and the sun pierced through the darkness lighting up the entire graveyard again. The crows started crowing again.

Link put his sword away and turned to me. "What was that about?"

"Good fucking question." I responded just as confused, but I guessed he was talking about what made Dark Link go through every time my hand touched him. For me, it was the entire time in the graveyard, from the ghost of Happy to Leviathan not doing a thing. "And Leviathan just … stood there, the entire time."

"She just stood there?"

"Yeah, she asked me to stop collecting the medallions and then she just watched a very pathetic fight between dark version and me."

"Pathetic because you couldn't do anything." Jason stated.

"No, it was rather pathetic on his end too." I growled at him. My strength was coming back faster than I expected it would. I stood on my own two feet and picked up my guns off the ground. "He didn't know too much about fighting with guns with a sword. I shot him when I got out of lock between the three weapons and then he used magic and healed himself. That's when he did a disappearing trick and appeared behind after I was heading back towards the village."

"Attacking from behind is rather cowardly." One of the Hyrulian soldiers said observingly. "Especially on a girl."

"I don't think he really cares." Link stated and turned his attention to me. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine." I replied walking over towards the tree. I was fine physically, but as I walked I rubbed my cheek were Dark Link's hand was. I shook my head as I grabbed a hair-elastic from my pouch and put up a pony tail moving my hair out of the way removing what was left of his touch out of my mind. I reached down and grabbed my sword and placed it in my sheath. "When are we leaving?"

"You want to leave right now after what just happened?" Delilah asked in surprised.

"We have to collect those medallions as fast as we possibly can. He was wounded when I shot him meaning he is getting closer to being whole and all we have collected is two out of six medallions."

"True… but are you sure?"

"I'm fine Delilah and besides," I looked over at Link as I walked back to them. "It's not like I'm doing very much today."

"So you aren't going into the temple?" Jason questioned suspiciously. I wasn't sure why though.

"I can't if I don't have the gear, which I don't. I would only get in the way if I did go with or without the gear." I told him.

"She just admitted getting in the way…" Jason said in awe as he took out his book. "I'm writing this down, my colleges back home would never believe, not like they would believe this adventure, but still. Are feeling you okay?"

"Oh hush you, I'm fine." I growled in annoyance and turned to Link expectantly.

"We are ready to go when Shad is done going through his notes to make sure we aren't missing any information."

I nodded and walked passed them and started out of the graveyard.

"What's her problem?" A different soldier asked as I barely heard him.

"She almost looks sick, Michael." Jason answered.

"I said I was fine, the farther we get away from here today the better." I shouted leaving the graveyard.

I walked over to the inn and inside I found Shad looking over one scripture that he had his nose buried in it, all the other books and scrolls he had were all put in his bag on the table in front of him. I tiled my head and walked over to him. He didn't notice me as I came around and looked down at it. All there was on the page as the same handwriting that was on the sign at the top of Death Mountain. I tried to read it, but nothing made any sense. Too bad the whole, speak different language and not even notice there was a difference, didn't imply with writing. "Whatcha reading?"

Shad jumped and almost clocked me in the chin with his arm as he swung while I moved back. Air rushed passed me and I realized that probably would have hurt a lot if it didn't miss.

"Jesus, I didn't realize your arm was also a bat." I exclaimed going back to where I was standing before. To say I was a little surprised by his swing was an understatement. It was almost more surprising than Leviathan's sudden appearance in the graveyard, almost.

"Oh Electra, I am so sorry. Ever since we thought you were taking an awfully long time for your walk we started to worry and then when we heard the gunshot everyone left leaving me here with Renado in the kitchen. So I was a tad on edge and alert if someone did try and attack me."

"Only a tad huh?" I smirked. Shad was a very interesting character; a nerd, but an interesting person.

"Are the others alright? Did they find you? Why did you fire your gun?"

I blinked at the rapid fire questions. "The others are fine, they should be coming back anytime through that door. Yes they found me. And I fired my gun because Leviathan and Dark Link showed up."

"Oh I see, well I'm glad no one was hurt, that would have been very bad if the dark version did kill someone."

"Why's that?"

"He could take their energy like he is using the medallions as it is quick and easy, but very little power to add to his own. If he attacked and killed, I would have to say around twenty-five people, it would be a different story. But if he killed someone with ancient blood like Link's, the Queen's or yours it would be the equivalent of that of twenty-five people because you are more related to him in a sense of life existence not by blood. Though if he got Link's himself and not a relative well, that would be equivalent to all the medallions gathering energy for him for a decade."

"So what are you reading anyway?" I asked trying to digest the horrible thought of that ever occurring. I had seen him with just the medallions only working for a couple of days and one of them not being in function from almost the beginning.

"Oh," Shad turned back to his scripture scroll. "This is the location of all the temples where the medallions were found. There is one really close to here, actually, but…"

"But what?" Link asked scaring the hell out of both of us. I almost thought it was Dark Link that spoke and my hand had already drawn my gun. Link looked a little worried and took a step back. "Does this count as fair trade to what happened in the kitchen at your place?"

"Yes I suppose it does." I sighed and put my gun away as the rest of our team walked into the inn and gathered around the table. "Shad was just telling me that there is a medallion close by but there was a catch I believe."

"Why haven't we gone after it?" Link asked ignoring his almost sudden death.

"Well the entrance to the temple is unknown other than these notes found on the Ocarina of Time." Shad started. "Not to mention, it's a horribly place full of the history of the blood, death and greed of Hyrule and it has been called the house of the dead. There are apparently a number of false doors, floors and even invisible enemies throughout the temple and you can't advance very far without an object called the Lens of Truth."

"You have an idea on where that might be?" Jason asked him.

"It was found at the bottom of a well that an old man's house used to stand in this very village. This Well and the Shadow Temple are both known to be connected by the Shiekah tribe, but whatever they were doing down there is unknown."

"Well isn't that just great." Delilah remarked and I raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh yea no, no pun intended. But what about the song, do you have an idea where this ocarina would be?"

"My best bet is that Zelda has it." Link answered her. "But who knows if it still exists now."

"You called her Zelda without her title, how tight are you two?"

"Delilah…" Jason warned.

"If it doesn't," I started as I pulled out the piccolo. "Malo said this was magic so if the Ocarina of Time is nowhere to be found. I could try this."

"Do you know how to play that instrument?" Link asked me.

"Well when I was in school still, I went to the music teacher and he taught me the notes on the instrument, and I can play twinkle, twinkle little star."

"That's it?" Jason asked in astonishment.

"And I can call Hero with my version of Beer for my Horses."

"Meaning that you also don't have the song down pat and you made up the notes."

"It's not like I had the song with me when I was just messing around with the instrument when Hero first appeared. So exactly now zip it unless you have any better ideas."

Jason rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything.

Footsteps reached my ears and I turned to see Renado appeared from the kitchen. "You guys should head to the Lakebed Temple and the Zora's Domain and leave the history of this village to me. I would be the best person to find it and I have a feeling on where it could be. When I find it I will let you know."

"Thank you Renado." Link told him and turned to Shad. "Ready to go?"

"Yes, but I have a feeling I brought the wrong type of clothes for this adventure." Shad said as he put his scroll away.

"We are getting wet again aren't we?" Michael asked.

"Oh that is most probable. Let's head to Lake Hylia and then we will see what happens from there."

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